Blood At The Root: A Racial Cleansing In America - Plot & Excerpts
The county gained wider notoriety as people from other parts of the state found themselves face-to-face with the enforcers of a “whites only” rule that was extraordinary even by the standards of Jim Crow.In September of 1915, the Times-Enterprise of Thomasville, in south Georgia, ran a story meant to shock readers with the fact that in the Georgia mountains there was “A County Without a Negro in It.” “Every family was run out of the county,” a reporter wrote, “and now an automobile cannot pass through and take a colored servant. This fact has just been ascertained by a physician who went there on a visit.” That physician was Hudson Moore, a wealthy Atlanta man who had business at the Forsyth County Courthouse on September 4th, 1915. When Moore drove north to Cumming, he took with him “a colored nurse and colored chauffeur” and left them waiting in the car while he went inside. Witnesses said that while Moore was speaking with officials, “he heard a commotion outside, and rushing out he found a crowd of several hundred gathered around the two servants, threatening them.
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